Nestled amid cedar forests and beside a pristine river two hours northwest of Tokyo, Nanmoku is a village at risk.

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Villages across Japan's countryside are facing extinction as the population ages and shrinks. NPR's Anthony Kuhn visited Japan's most aged village, where most residents are over age 65. He reports on ...

Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to disappear in the 1950s, when people began migrating en masse to the cities. You can still see them in places, ...

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As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets to stitch their community back together. Ichinono is only one of several “doll villages” in Japan where life-sized ...

By John Geddie and Joseph Campbell SHIRAKAWA, Japan (Reuters) -Shiroki Mitsunari does not remember seeing bears in the ...

Entrepreneurial young Japanese people are trying to reinvigorate Japan's most aged village — where more than two thirds of residents are over 65 — and keep it from vanishing from the map. Villages ...